In a Gallup Poll conducted the first two days after an Israeli mortar fire killed more than 40 Palestinians sheltered in a United Nations-run school, only 33% of Americans say the Bush administration should be doing more to end the conflict than it already is doing.
The documentary Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land calls on scholars, media critics, peace activists, religious figures, and Middle East experts to explain how U.S. media coverage reinforces false perceptions of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
This debate between Martin Indyk, the former US ambassador to Israel and Assistant Secretary of State for Near East Affairs during the Clinton administration, and Norman Finkelstein, author of several books, including The Holocaust Industry, Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict and Beyond Chutzpah, is not to be missed.